routing questions

[von_Schmidt]

"I sometimes see troops who have routed return to battle (though they then seem to route easily), without any spells being cast. Why?"

If you mean routing troops who are still with the (victorious) army after the battle: routing troops only flee to neighboring provinces if they leave the battle screen before the battle ends.

If you mean that routing troops actually turn around and rejoing the fight; well, I have never seen that happen...

von Schmidt

[Ironhawk]

Originally posted by Merry Jolkar:
I sometimes see troops who have routed return to battle (though they then seem to route easily), without any spells being cast. Why?

I have seen this behavior rarely and it is only with bodyguards. The scenario I have seen is that a commander has a set of bodyguards. That army then routs for one reason or another and the commander then begins fleeing, so the bodyguard accompanies him. BUT, if the commander gets ahead of the bodyguard and leaves the field before them, they will sometimes turn around and charge the enemy. I don't have any explaination as to why this is, I'm just relating what I have seen.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Ironhawk:
The scenario I have seen is that a commander has a set of bodyguards. That army then routs for one reason or another and the commander then begins fleeing, so the bodyguard accompanies him. BUT, if the commander gets ahead of the bodyguard and leaves the field before them, they will sometimes turn around and charge the enemy. I don't have any explaination as to why this is, I'm just relating what I have seen.

I suspect this might happen if the commander, personally, blows his morale check, while his bodyguards do not, and thus chickens out. The bodyguards, of course, assigned to escort him, follow him to the end of the battlefield, but once he vacates, the guards, who are still unbroken, no longer have anyone to guard and therefore revert to default orders of attacking the nearest thing in sight.

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Merry Jolkar:
If I have him retreat after he's fired of his volley of spells, will this affect the probability of my troops retreating (providing there are other commanders who will stay behind).

As long as there is a commander with the appropriate leadership type, the units will not be affected. For mindless undead, they will dissolve until they reach the current leadership limit.

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I was under the impression that as long as any commander with undead leadership remained, all undead were fine; presumably for much the same reason that undead can remain in a province without an undead commander.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
I was under the impression that as long as any commander with undead leadership remained, all undead were fine; presumably for much the same reason that undead can remain in a province without an undead commander.

I'm not entirely certain how it works now, although I think I might have seen undead units dissolve when I couldn't think of another reason for it.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
I'm not entirely certain how it works now, although I think I might have seen undead units dissolve when I couldn't think of another reason for it.

I'm quite certain that mindless units remain intact and undissolved as long as ANY friendly commander on the field retains the ability to control them, regardless of what his leadership rating is.

However, said undead also tend to be rather brittle, and as such, are prone to just dying. Perhaps you thought they were dissolving from lack of leadership, when, in fact, they were just being killed by something not immediately visible.